Psycho

12/4/19981h 44m

Theatrical Release (US)

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Overview:

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$25,000,000.00

Revenue:

$37,100,000.00

Key words:

motel
stolen money
murder
psychosis
psycho

Cast

Vince Vaughn

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Norman Bates

Anne Heche

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Marion Crane

Julianne Moore

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Lila Crane

Viggo Mortensen

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Samuel 'Sam' Loomis

William H. Macy

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Milton Arbogast

Robert Forster

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Dr. Simon

Philip Baker Hall

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Sheriff Chambers

Anne Haney

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Mrs. Chambers

Chad Everett

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Tom Cassidy

Rance Howard

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Mr. Lowery

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Reviews (1)

Repo Jack
Written 5 year(s) ago
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Horror fans really should thank Gus Van Sant for his experimental "copy exactly" approach to re-making the horror classic Psycho. Filmmakers have learned that just modernizing the original with a bigger budget takes no creativity and falls into tedium and redundancy which most horror fan's hate. Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake, where nearly every scene is "copied exactly," is a perfect example of this.

It was simply BORING. Even for those that never saw this first, the pacing is just too slow for the high-octane generations of the 90's and beyond. For a re-make to resonate with an audience that knows the original by heart, it has to deliver a new and different version while staying within the bounds of the original framework. We should be thankful because no director will try this again. For the secret formula to successful horror re-makes, watch 2012's The Evil Dead, 2004's Dawn of the Dead or David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986).